POACHERS IMPERIL PARADISE?‘Wherever there’s fish there’s men, and wherever there’s men there’s a villain or two’.
James and I looked into the dark, swirling waters of the Moy downstream of Ballylahan Bridge, where salmon would be holed up and waiting for the final push to their spawning grounds. High water will help them. Not only will a good flood enable them to reach high into the smaller rivers and feeder streams which contribute to the bulk of the Moy, it will have prepared the shallow gravels in readiness, scrubbing them clean of sediment and turning the beds of small stones anew.
James mused: “Are there more fish now, than were there ten years ago?”…
Mayo News 29/11/2016 Read the full article ‘Mad dogs’ greedy men take fish from the midstream run’
